{"id":5315,"date":"2013-03-10T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2013-03-04T22:56:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T22:56:48","slug":"king-amanullah-on-the-southern-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/king-amanullah-on-the-southern-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"King Amanullah on the Southern Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silent film from 1928. <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Our Royal Guests &#8211; Britain welcomes Amanullah, King of Afghanistan and Souriya, his beautiful Queen<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishpathe.com\/video\/our-royal-guests\/query\/Afghanistan\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.britishpathe.com\/?id=33769&#038;num=10&#038;size=thumb\" title=\"OUR ROYAL GUESTS\" widOth=\"352\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dover, Kent and London.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The King and Queen walk beside a train on a railway platform at Dover with their entourage and are greeted by men in white wigs; one reads to them from a book &#8211; presumably some kind of traditional greeting; the book is handed to the King, the Queen is given a bunch of flowers.<\/p>\n<p>At a London railway station (probably Victoria) we see the royal party getting off the train and being greeted by King George V and Queen Mary; they are all seen shaking hands with various military dignitaries. The two Kings walk past a line of guards in busbys outside the station then get into an open carriage under a canopy of international flags outside the station; the two Queens can be made out in the background getting into their open carriage.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silent film from 1928. Our Royal Guests &#8211; Britain welcomes Amanullah, King of Afghanistan and Souriya, his beautiful Queen Dover, Kent and London. [&#8230;] The King and Queen walk beside a train on a railway platform at Dover with their entourage and are greeted by men in white wigs; one reads to them from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[226,15,219,220,218,194],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-226","tag-amanullah","tag-dover","tag-london","tag-southern-railway","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5364,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions\/5364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}